55 Travel and Voyage Quotes

44 Travel Quotes and 11 Voyage Quotes for Everyone to Share

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It’s not about inventing. – Paul Theroux

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As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope. – Annette Funicello

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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. – Paul Robeson

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Stirling Castle, in Stirling, Scotland. Photo by Finlay McWalter. The view is from the King’s Knot area, looking roughly northward to the castle. License: CC-SA-2.0

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens – roughly 200,000 years – people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things. – Andrew Weil

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For ‘Around the World in 80 Plates’ we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco… It was amazing. – Curtis Stone

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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. – Jose Saramago

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I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time. – Jerzy Kosinski

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don’t travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant. – Gene Simmons

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I love to take risks, I love to travel, and I’m very outdoor-sy, so any girl who can pick up a football and throw a spiral will definitely catch my attention. – Kellan Lutz

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I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I’m the only guy with a hat. It’s amazing. – Larry Hagman

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I really enjoy what I do, and who I’m with and where I am. Having said that, I’m not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things. – Robert Smith

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I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop. – John Legend

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. – Maria Mitchell

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I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel. – Sarah Michelle Gellar

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I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice. – Linda McCartney

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I’m living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel. – Ville Valo

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I’m obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I’ve literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book. – Emma Roberts

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It’s wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another. – Roger Moore

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I’ve always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries. – Dominic Monaghan

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Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. – Sargent Shriver

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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn’t say that I’m a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. – Paul Theroux

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My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I’m not daunted by the travel. People say, ‘It’s so far to Australia,’ and I say, ‘You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up – and you’re there.’ – Geoffrey Rush

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Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. – Arthur Smith

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Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What’s not to love! – Mary-Kate Olsen

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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. – Thomas Hood

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Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don’t want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can’t really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot. – Madonna Ciccone

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Time travel hypothesis ; using wormholes.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who’s connected with it, the studio’s gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that’s left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. – Tom Waits

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The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming. – Paul Theroux

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The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines – that puts women’s health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants. – Cynthia Nixon

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The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western – just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly – it’s almost the antithetical of what’s currently going on in the movies, you know. – Lawrence Kasdan

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The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans. – Christa McAuliffe

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These days I travel so much it’s hard to get into a routine. When I’m on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I’m home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date. – Curtis Stone

Travel works best when you’re forced to come to terms with the place you’re in. – Paul Theroux

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Travel, of course, narrows the mind. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays – I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want – but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit. – Dan Stevens

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When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games. – Drew Carey

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Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure. – Bill Murray

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Paris, with the Eiffel Tower in the foreground and the skyscrapers of La Défense in the background. Photo by Taxiarchos228, License CC-SA-3.0.

You cannot travel within and stand still without. – James Lane Allen

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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart

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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family. – Adriana Trigiani

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11 Journey Quotes and Quotations

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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. – William Shakespeare

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. – W. Clement Stone

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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. – Christopher Columbus

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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. – Seneca

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Remains of the 12th-century Trim Castle in County Meath, the largest Norman castle in Ireland. Photo by Andrew Parnell, License: CC-SA-2.0.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. – Aeschylus

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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. – Michel de Montaigne

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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust